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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Britain ?Came Within Whisker of Blackouts? Yesterday Thu Jan 09, 2025 15:16 | Will Jones
Britain came "within a whisker of blackouts" on Wednesday after plunging temperatures and?low wind power generation?left electricity grid operators struggling to keep the lights on.
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offsite link Where is Rachel Reeves? Thu Jan 09, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?
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offsite link Thousands of Civil Servants to Strike ?Indefinitely? Over Demand to Return to Office Three Days a We... Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:16 | Will Jones
Thousands of civil servants are to strike "indefinitely" following an order to return to the office for three days a week, a move described by a trade union as "Victorian".
The post Thousands of Civil Servants to Strike “Indefinitely” Over Demand to Return to Office Three Days a Week appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EV Sales Still Way Below Target as U.K. Car Industry Careers Towards Oblivion Thu Jan 09, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
U.K. electric vehicle sales are still way below target, says Paul Homewood. "If you wanted to destroy the U.K. car industry, while enriching Chinese and U.S. manufacturers, I cannot think of a better way to do it."
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offsite link Meet the World?s Worst Economist Thu Jan 09, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Ever wondered why Keir Starmer is obsessed with 'missions'? It turns out there's an over-rated economist from the UN, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, flying round the world banging on about them, says Charlotte Gill.
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international / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 14, 2008 22:38 by Sharon McDonagh   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 31, 2008 15:56)   video 2 video files
Invitation

Olive Planting Program - February 2009
A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians

Invitation to the Olive Planting Program
7th - 16th February, 2009 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday November 13, 2008 21:19 by a-films   video 2 video files
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, many of them feel frustrated and hopeless, only sometimes seeing a glimmer of hope.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 13, 2008 17:07 by TD   text 4 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 18:28)   video 3 video files
What next for the Campaign, now that the new Corrib Gas Forum set up by Eamon Ryan and Éamon Ó Cuiv will not “revisit existing consents and permissions given to the project”?

What next, when "Governments around the world are waking up to the reality that natural resources are soveriegn assets and that it is entirely within the rights of the state to readjust taxation and royalty deals in times of windfall revenues or supply concerns" (Michael McCaughan, The Price of our Souls, Gas, Shell and ireland) read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday November 11, 2008 21:52 by Seomra Spraoi   text 31 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 18:34)   video 1 video file
Seomra Spraoi opens new autonomous social centre.
Seomra Spraoi is back. After 10 long Seomra-less months a new home has been found, and work is underway to transform the space into a fully functioning social centre. A lot has changed since being forced from our last space. We've been pretty busy too. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday November 11, 2008 08:24 by remember Ken Saro-Wiwa   text 14 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2008 17:16)   video 1 video file
Thirteen years ago today, on November 10th 1995, nine men from Ogoni land were hanged at Port Harcourt prison Nigeria. They had been tried in a military court by the Nigerian dictatorship. One of the men, the famous human rights campaigner Ken Saro Wiwa had been a particular thorn in the side of the Shell oil company, which found itself unable to operate in parts of the Niger Delta because of the work organisating people to peacefully resist against their destructive activities.

In stark proof of who controlled Nigeria at the time, his family had been told by Shell executives that he would be spared if he would help the company. Saro Wiwa preferred to die with honour. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Friday November 07, 2008 12:51 by Allen Meagher   video 1 video file
Changing Ireland’ has become the greenest magazine in Ireland. While we're celebrating, we are shocked to find ourselves leading the way.
“‘Changing Ireland’ finds is now ahead of a range of popular commercial magazines that weigh down the shop-shelves with paper from virgin forests and inks derived from heavy chemicals. We should be following their lead into a greener world, not showing them the way,” said editor Allen Meagher.

‘Changing Ireland’, Issue 27, is the publication’s first ‘green issue’. The new edition is now on the web: www.changingireland.ie and the paper version is due out from Monday, Nov. 10th and it is available in Eason’s or directly by contacting ‘Changing Ireland’.
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 19:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 8 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 10:10)   video 1 video file
"Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A."
clip -Leonard Cohen
http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/leonard_cohen_-_democ...y.php

I've been in Glasgow the past few daze catching to my godson Seanoidh and his parents Brian and Babs. I met B & B when I accompanied my friend Richard, who had just been deported from Genoa as he was trying to make his way to the G8 2001 demonstration, down to the Italian embassy in London to register our protest at the killing of Carlos,
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international / animal rights / news report Thursday November 06, 2008 15:56 by Hilary   text 7 comments (last - friday march 18, 2011 16:19)   video 1 video file
The United States of America took a giant step in the last week in the field of civil rights and human development when a man with Offaly ancestry was chosen to lead the nation. While there is no legal bar against people from Offaly or their descendants holding high office in the U.S., many were surprised that voters were able to overcome the widespread prejudice against the county.

Men from Offaly (known as BIFFO's) have often encountered a "glass ceiling" whereby they would be trusted with a glass, but not a pint. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday November 05, 2008 21:20 by sher   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 06, 2008 14:07)   video 1 video file
Many workers for the food and clothing retailer Dunnes Stores are worried by rumours that the company is about to be sold to US giant Walmart. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 03, 2008 10:24 by Jim   text 12 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 20:53)   video 2 video files
In a speech in July, Barack Obama stated that he wants to "re-deploy" American troops in Iraq "carefully" with their safety in mind and "responsibly" leaving behind a "sovereign" Iraqi government that can "take responsibility for its own future."

In doublespeak that means Barack Obama is as committed as George W. Bush was to the imperialist American project in the Middle East - toppling anti-American elites and replacing them with pro-American elites to administer the American agenda.

Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 02, 2008 16:32 by Youth 4 Truth   text 16 comments (last - wednesday november 12, 2008 17:18)   video 1 video file
Thousands of people turned out to the Sinn Fein rally/march today (Sun 2 Nov) which opposed the 'home coming' parade by the notorious RIR regiment of the British Army.

There was a large Ógra Shinn Féin presence on the day, with young republicans travelling from across Ireland.

The rally/march was calling for an end to the ongoing illegal occupations in Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan and also to demand the truth for the hundreds of families who have been bereaved through the official British state policy of collusion and state murder. The UDR/RIR themselves where part and parcel of the murder machine.
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 31, 2008 11:39 by Andrew   video 1 video file
Eight minutes of video fro Wednesday nights demonstration. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:02 by Jim   text 21 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 19:19)   video 5 video files
A juvenile anti-war left in the US and Europe are hopeful that Obama, a left-leaning liberal Senator, will be an abrupt and positive change from the "worst President ever" George W. Bush.
the story goes that the Bush policies of maintaining American economic and military dominance invited the 9/11 attacks and that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have led to the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians have become an endless quagmire, while the social divide between rich and poor has never been greater as the US economy is in free fall.
The accepted "wisdom" is the Obama will turn American and the world around.
But is this true?
Absolutely not. Obama is in fact Bush 2. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday October 27, 2008 17:52 by Maire   text 10 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2008 14:49)   video 1 video file
The Irish Republican Youth Movement, Ógra Shinn Féin, are set to join the march and rally in Belfast this weekend in opposition to the British MOD’s parade for the notorious UDR/RIR regiment of the British Army.

Demonstrators from across Ireland will join in solidarity with the relatives of victims of British State Murder and Collusion at Bank Square, 10.45am this Sunday 2 November. There will be a number of speakers including Mark Thompson of Relatives For Justice and Martina Anderson for Sinn Féin, before marching to Royal Avenue for a dignified and peaceful protest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 24, 2008 21:17 by Paula Geraghty   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2008 15:51)   video 2 video files
After 15,000 pensioners protest the budget cutbacks similar numbers of students demonstrate from Parnell Square to the Dáil.
Gardaí blocked off Kildare Street in fear of student radicalism and occupation after the previous events in UCD, with horses and wagons. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 18:43 by NMI   text 5 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 17:04)   video 1 video file
Between ten and twelve thousand people turned out in bright sunshine today to demonstrate against the Green Party/Fainna Fáil plan to impose fees for third level education.

FF Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe called for consideration of re-imposition of fees earlier this year, and "registration fees" were massively increased in the recent budget. He has signalled that he intends to introduce legislation on third level fees in the new year. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / feature Friday October 17, 2008 19:54 by George Stapleton   text 7 comments (last - friday november 07, 2008 12:35)   video 1 video file
This is the second of a series of articles covering the financial and money markets from a critical perspective. In 'Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction', Paul Bowman examined the derivatives market and promised that the succeeding article would cover the 'story of the historical development of successive regimes of global financial orders' and would explain the role of the Eurodollars market 'in undermining the Keynesian Bretton Woods system'.

In the interests of space and relevance, I will only tell the story of the historical development of the regime of global financial order under US hegemony. I will begin by examining how the centre of capital accumulation shifted from Europe to the US in the first half of the twentieth century, and how following World War II the global financial order became centred around the US through the Bretton Woods system.

I will then look at how the Bretton Woods System was undermined, concentrating as much on the role of workers’ militancy as on the role of the Eurodollars market. After considering the response to the crisis of Bretton Woods, I'll look at the Clinton boom bringing us up to the current situation of the US’s current heavy dependence on foreign borrowing.

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 15, 2008 17:15 by john throne   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:49)   video 1 video file
Now the Bush regime has taken a stake in the top nine US banks. It does so to save the system which the Wall Street Journal says was on the edge of a precipice. This is a major defeat for the US model of capitalism. And for the Bush regime. Bush came to power promising to reverse the gains of the 1930's and the 1960's. Now he will leave power having gone back to again increasing the role of the state in the economy. Not to mention the military defeats abroad. read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / news report Sunday October 12, 2008 12:39 by TaraWatch   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 14, 2008 11:14)   video 3 video files
FERROVIAL, who are building the M3 motorway through the Tara archaeological complex and SHELL, who are building the gas pipeline in Mayo are just two of the companies attending a conference on Stakeholder Engagement, within the realm of Corporate Social Responsibility in Barcelona this Monday and Tuesday, 13th and 14th of October We need people to help us engage in the conference, by sending activists and emailing participants. http://www.ethicalcorp.com/stakeholder/agenda.asp
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 11, 2008 20:44 by Andrew   text 11 comments (last - tuesday october 14, 2008 15:33)   video 1 video file
Over a thousand people marched through Dublin today as part of the Dublin Council of Trade unions organised demonstration for a decent health service. read full story / add a comment
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